“Republicanism has — it’s really become a religion,” he noted. “And
when I say religion, I mean they just have a series of baseless
assertions that they cleave to, you know, and it’s like, if there was
just one sane person in that room to give perspective, but there
wasn’t.”

“I would vote for Ron Paul if I had to pick,” Maher said. “I mean Ron
Paul is at least not a panderer. He’s sincere. He’s got the right ideas
about getting our troops home.”

“And, you know, I like Ron Paul. I think he’s cut from a different
cloth than the rest of those people, who are, of course, selling their
souls to the corporate interests who back them, and who have just
horrible, society-killing ideas about America and either don’t know
what’s real or don’t care,” he added.